Aug. 03, 2012

Making Movies That Zoom into Foreign Worlds

Photographer Roman Vishniac, perhaps most famous for documenting Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, was also a pioneer of cinemicroscopy – filming through a microscope. Flora Lichtman looks back at Vishniac’s science cinema and talks to Dutch photographer Wim van Egmond about how he makes his award-winning images and videos of microorganisms.